Reps. Jordan and Reschenthaler are requesting the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog, review to what extent the Chinese Communist Party is abusing the U.S.’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.
Issuing EB-5 investor visas, which primarily benefit Chinese nationals, “should be the last priority” of the United States federal government in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan says.
Less than ten percent of the total number of green cards rewarded annually to foreign nationals will be affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily pausing a sliver of legal immigration to the United States.
President Trump’s executive order pausing some green cards to the United States specifically exempts a visa program allowing China’s elite to effectively buy American citizenship for themselves and their families.
The United States’ legal immigration system, admitting about 1.2 million permanent foreign residents a year, continues to heavily favor China despite national security concerns.
A supposed plan by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would reward more of China’s elite to essentially buy American citizenship for themselves and their families with the promise of investing in U.S. cities.
GreenTech Automotive, the electric car company which former Democratic National Committee Chairman and long-time Clinton ally Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe served as CEO from 2010 to 2012, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
At the “Lincoln-Douglas” style moderator-less debate in Montgomery, Alabama Thursday, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore called out his opponent Sen. Luther Strange over revelations he stands to profit from the controversial EB-5 visa program.
Sen. Luther Strange’s (R-AL) effort to paint himself as the true immigration hawk in the GOP primary campaign for a full term as the Yellowhammer State’s U.S. senator continued to flounder Wednesday in the face of reports Strange is a major stakeholder in a firm that profits from the issuance of visas to rich, mostly Chinese, foreign investors.
After it emerged Tuesday that Sen. Luther Strange is a one-sixth owner in Sunbelt EB-5 Regional Center, Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler attacked him as “self-serving.”
Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), despite his presentation as an immigration hawk, has a substantial stake in a firm that facilitates visas for rich, mostly Chinese, investors and their families.
The Kushner Companies are continuing to tout former CEO and White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner’s connections with the president in order to intice Chinese investors, according to a Thursday CNN report.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is pushing for a federal investigation of the Fifth Avenue-based Kushner Companies for seemingly promising Chinese investors legal residence in America for buying into a New Jersey real estate development.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) penned a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly Wednesday, urging his department to get ahead of rumors circulating in China over EB-5 investor visas.
Nicole Kushner Meyer is apologizing for mentioning her brother, Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, during an investment conference in China over the weekend.
The outgoing Obama administration has raised the upfront investment required to get citizenship via the fraud-wracked EB-5 visa program from $500,000 to $1.35 million.
The GOP-controlled Congress has quietly renewed the EB-5 visa program which allows foreigners to effectively buy U.S. citizenship.
Terry McAuliffe is now Democratic governor of Virginia. GreenTech was financed in part by EB-5 visas granted to Chinese investors helped through the political approval process by Tony Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s brother.
An ongoing FBI investigation is looking into the possibility that donations to Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s 2013 campaign may have come from foreign nationals. That is against the law.
The New York Post reports on the latest case from the much-abused EB-5 “investor’s visa” program, which the open-borders lobby routinely insists is working just fine.
A 10-month extension of the controversial foreign investor visa program is included in the year-end spending deal scheduled for a vote this week.
A visa program intended to encourage wealthy foreigners to invest in high unemployment areas in the U.S. is instead being used to direct money to luxury establishments in affluent areas, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The immigration program for wealthy investors — the Employment-Based Fifth Preference Immigrant Investor Program or EB-5 — is vulnerable to fraud, new a Government Accountability Office report reveals.
The EB-5 visa program — wherein foreign investors can be placed on a path to citizenship by investing and creating at least 10 full-time jobs in U.S. — is a scam, University of Chicago Law School professor Eric Posner concludes.
“I think Harry Reid’s getting out of town ahead of the posse,” former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova tells Breitbart News. The Senate Minority Leader says he’ll retire in 2017, at the conclusion of his current term.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says he intends to retire at the end of his term in 2017. But he may still face legal pressure before he leaves. Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, a leading legal expert on the prosecution and defense of white collar criminals, tells Breitbart News there is enough public evidence to launch a criminal investigation of Reid.
An ABC News investigation raises questions about the EB-5 visa program, and whether DHS is responding to political pressure and allowing immigrants with questionable backgrounds into the U.S.
